THANKSGIVING DAY

Thanksgiving day it is celebrated the ( dajar espacio) It was celebrated for the first time in 1621 by the settlers of the Cologne of Plymouth. These colonizers, that later were Wandering calls, you left of England because they desired to be separated of the Church established and to worship to God to their own way. After leaving England, the Pilgrims were established in Holland in 1608.Finally in 1620 they embarked upon the "Mayflower" seeking freedom of worship in the New World. Illnesses. Nevertheless, those that survived they continued fighting and in the spring they sowed their first crop of corn.Squanto, an Indian warlike, friend of them made, and he taught the colonizers how to sow and to cultivate the corn, and he helped him to establish good relations with the tribes neighboring indies. In the autumn of 1621, after a good crop, the Governing Bradford proclaimed "a day to give thanks to the Mister so that in a way more special to delight us after to have collected the fruit of our work".In a gesture of friendship, the Pilgrims invited the Indians neighboring for together to celebrate a festival, in which they shared turkeys and geese, corn, lobsters, clams, calabacitas, pumpkins and dry fruits.Due to a poor crop and problems with the Indians, was not possible to celebrate the thanksgiving Day the following year. Nevertheless, in 1623 the Governing Bradford proclaimed July 30 as the thanksgiving Day to celebrate the end of a long period of drought.The day October 3, 1863, the President Abraham Lincoln, sent off the first proclamation of the thanksgiving Day since 1789. Since the time of Lincoln, yearly the President has proclaimed the fourth Thursday of November as the thanksgiving Day.The general boss of this celebration has also been conserved equal since the 19th Century. The menu, with any regional variation, generally consists of turkey backfill to the oven, blueberries, some plate based on corn, sweet potatoes and cakes of pumpkin. Nowadays, the thanksgiving Day, continues being a holiday during which the American families gather to share the fruits of an abundant crop and for give thanks to God by their blessings in their lands.